Power quotations

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◆ Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

- Edward Abbey99

◆ Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

- John Adams99

◆ Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson99

◆ All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

- Victor Hugo99

◆ Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

- Eleanor Roosevelt99

◆ The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

- Alice Walker99

◆ You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn99

◆ I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

- Blaise Pascal99

◆ Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

- Michel Foucault99

◆ My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger99

◆ When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

- Susan Sarandon99

◆ Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

- Blaise Pascal99

◆ People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

- Don DeLillo99

◆ The greatest power is often simple patience.

- E. Joseph Cossman99